http://chadheap.myadventures.org Chad Heap Aka Chad Bo First Year Missionary - Adventures In Missions en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:06:41 GMT 30 http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=good-byes-suck http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=good-byes-suck This is I i feel as I am starting to say good bye to people I have minstered to in the last nine months of my life. It is not easy letting go but I am exicted to see where God takes me next. I love what one of my teammates told a lady today she said you know that we may not see each other again here on earth but think how awesome it will be to see each other in heaven. I know i will miss my kids that I played with and just the familys lifes who I touched in a way no one else could. I look back t Tue, 6 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=fiesta-time http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=fiesta-time Ok so this week i thought I would share photos from a birthday party I helped throw for some kids here in Mexico. It was so cool because this was there first ever piata. They were really exicted and so here are pics and a video from the party.                         Sat, 3 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=i-am-not-a-super-hero http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=i-am-not-a-super-hero Since I have been here it has been so awesome to just help the people and just really build the relationships we have. Lately I have been a little fustared it seems like everywhere we go people Our just saying give me give me, and it is hard to say no and just not try to give into there every need. for example we build a house for a lady and during that time we were talking to people avout it and they were like well can you build me a house or where is mine and I am tinking we are not super hero Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=walking-alone http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=walking-alone Since there has been a change in my team and now the last guy on my team is gone it has been really hard being the only guy. When you dont have someone other than a girl to tlak to or hang out with it gets kind of lonely. The other night I was just in my room alone and feeling like man i wish i had someone to just talk to and I felt the lord just saying I am here. So I just began to pray and cry out to him and really i am not alone I have him right there walking beside me. It is not easy not hav Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=discovering-myself http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=discovering-myself This week was huge in many ways. We had a group come from johnson ferry baptist church from Georgia come this week. They had 260 people plus us. We helped as staff for the project. My role was helping translate for construction and also helping with encouragement. i worked with a few different teams in that role and I did well for as much spanish as I know. i began to see God shaping me for this summer and preparing me for my leadership role in Kentucky. I had a couple of times where he just rea Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=a-lesson-in-leadership http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=a-lesson-in-leadership This week My whole team is back out at the Gateway an AIM base here in Mexico. We helped with a group of High School students from Alabma. Our role was to help answer any questions that they may have, take them to minstry sites and help them with prayer walking. How was this a lesson in leadership you may ask well let me tell you. I was kind of put in charge of leading a group to my internship at the youth detetion center. I enjoyed the first day and it went well, the second day was when th Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=just-a-few-random-thoughts http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=just-a-few-random-thoughts This is tough as i am sitting trying to gather my thoughts of what to talk about. i feel like i am drawing ablank here. Well I guess I can tlak about what I have been up to here. This week in class we have been talking about inner healing and prophesy. It has been well to hear what they have been sharing. I have really felt the spirit this week. thursday was the day when i could really sense the spirits power. I just had been doingquiet time and I have been reading a bible study and that day it Sat, 8 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=join-the-awakening-discipleship-missions http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=join-the-awakening-discipleship-missions Awaken to the Adventure Disciples aren't born; they're made. It's a process that takes time, discipline, and God. In reality, it looks more like waking up than attending a class. As part of The Awakening, you can undergo a discipleship program like no other, experiencing four months of intense training in another country to prepare you for the ministry that awaits you for the rest of the year.Join The Awakening Your mornings will be spent in training and your afternoons Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=moving-on http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=moving-on We are moving onward. last friday we returned to our neighborhoods to vist for the first time in two weeks and it was a very sad and joyful time. The people had no clue what was going on why we hadn't been there and why there was no church. There were rumors floating around but nobody knew the truth all they wanted was the truth. As i sat and saw their faces I began to see where I was 2 weeks ago right there where they were hungry for the truth and what was going on. All they wanted was the trut Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=decisonsdecisions http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=decisonsdecisions So these last couple of weeks have been filled with decisions. Last week our team was given terrible news that our mexico leader who had been minstering here for 15 years had commited moral faliure. This sturck our team in awe. People where then given decisions to make. He was no longer going to be our leader and we have been given the choice to see the program thorugh our go home. For me the decision was somewhat easy. I am tired of giving up and giving in when times get rough. I am so sick of Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=im-hungry1 http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=im-hungry1 This week we are fasting as a team. We are not totally going without meals but are given less. It has been a exprience not to forget. Yesterday we wern't givin breakfast or lunch. All I couldn't think about was when is dinner, but I sat and thought about that yesterday there is more than just real food my prayer was God give me a hunger for more of you. During class yesterday and today Bob our pastor was talking about how think about people who are straving and where they do not know where their Thu, 7 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=im-backkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=im-backkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk Hello, Yes I am back in action in Mexico and things are going great. I started out with a sturggle with wether or not needed to stay here or go home. That was a battle in my mind for along time. I over that obstacle and contuining to strive for God. I have got back into my minstry and it is awesome to see how people are doing and how things have changed. I Have also made a change in my minsrty this semster. Last semester Iwas going to the children's home and belive me it was awesome but I fe Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=homesick-for-mexico http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=homesick-for-mexico As time has been going on I have been thinking about how i can't wait to get back to Mexico. Reading all my teammates blogs is not helping. I am exicted we go back next tuesday and am exicted to see what God has in store for me. Like I have heard here while on break from one of my friends life is an adventure so live like it is. Also my break has been good I have been having an awesome time here in New york. I have seen family i haven't seen in years. It has been cold and blowing but iam endurin Mon, 7 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=making-an-impact http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=making-an-impact It is been hard because sometimes i feel i am not making an impact on anyone here or i feel like Iam not making a diffrence. I know this is not true this last sundaya boy and church ran up and hugged me and someone asked him in spanish what he is going to do when i have to leave and the boy responded with i am going with him. That really touched me helped really know my purpose here in Mexico. I don't speak their language and sometimes i feel worthless and like iam failing but this one kid helpe Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=this-week-in-mexico-contunied http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=this-week-in-mexico-contunied So my week just kept being awesome. On thursday we were out visting our community and I had the oppurtunity to fix a family's roof, I went for a run with the lady in my profile pic, and yes i painted one of her finger nails. The best part was when we went to a lady's house who usally is there and her husband is not well this time it changed he was there and she wasn't. so the girl's urged me to speak to him. so I began just speaking to him in the best spanish i knew and was a pretty good convers Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=this-week-in-mexico http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=this-week-in-mexico This week has been alot of fun, I have had some really great exprineces. On tuesday we went to our community to vist the people there and we visted a family that we always do and usally the dad is not there because he drinks alot. WEll on tuesday he was there it was cool because he was actually intercacting with his son. I got to play soccer with them. I really didn't get one on one time with my dad or either of my step dads growing up. So i kind of was alittle bit jealous. Then we went to our d Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=a-little-is-alot http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=a-little-is-alot Sometimes I don't stop and think how grateful I should be for what I have, last week when i was minstring in las Granjas (my ministry neighborhood) i began to realize how diffrent people live. They don't have water or electric and we went for bible study on tuesday night, i taught the kids class and we had to do it by candle light, I did begin to think how fortunate i was to have electricity till I had to have candles on a table with kids. then on thursday we were invited to eat at house there a Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=bulidng-character http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=bulidng-character so this week in class we have been talking about buliding character. We were asked how do you want to grow in your charcater. for me it is like this i want to have courage to stand strong in the lord and really be able to step out in faith and serve the lord. I really feel like i am insecure in myself and want to be stronger. this morning in my quiet time i read in 2 kings 18-19 How King Hezekiah was pressed by the asyrians and they were telling him how they were going to conquer his city but he Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=my-week-so-far http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=my-week-so-far This week has been challenging to me. On tuesday we went out to minister in one of the communitys here and it went well. We met a three diffrent familys the first lady gave us chili peppers from her garden, and she told us to try it. first my teammate tried a little bite, and the lady said no bigger bite. so me bieng bold i took the  whole little pepper and stuck it in my mouth. i screamed for water and my mouth burned for 20 minutes, and we visted another older lady who gave us popsciles t Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=my-internship-pics http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=my-internship-pics I love working with all of these kids. I have been to call them my own. It is so fun to be there on wednsdays and fridays. look forward to more to come. Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=what-god-has-been-showing-me-so-far http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=what-god-has-been-showing-me-so-far I was reading in my quiet time one day and I prayed to the lord what is discpleship and these verse were shown to me. I was not sure what it ment at first so i took it to my Leader. He spoke truth in my life and this is what I feel was shown that I shouldn't worry about what my family thinks and I should let them go because they are not wanting to serve the lord. this doesn't mean not to love them it means loving God and through that they will be honered. You see i have struggled in prepartion f Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=searching-for-internships http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=searching-for-internships The journey as offically begun. This week we where told to begin asking the lord about our internships. They gave us a list of options and I begin to pray where God would want me to go. On Wednsday we were taken to diffrent locations I chose to go to Esthers which is a childrens home. first we had to got to the prison and i knew after begining ther it was not for me. Then we went to Esthers the lady who was there greeted us and would not let us in because esther was not there. So I began to pray Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=que-pasa-de-mexico http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=que-pasa-de-mexico Hola! I am in mexico and it is been great.  it is very hot but i am enduring the heat. so far we have been doing some assigments that were given to us the first assigment they dropped us off in a colina and told us to find our way around and locate certain things and then got to the bus stop and make it to the plaza fiesta where we had to buy doughnuts and candy. Then we had to go to the marketplace and find frogs, marachi hats and a pancho. This was a lot of fun and we completed our assigm Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=training-camp-in-3-words http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=training-camp-in-3-words Training camp was very cool stepping offthe plane aweek ago into the unknown. I began to meet people on my team and  it was awesome. what an experince.well here is a summary of how it went. I learnedalot about myself and fully began to turn things over to God. I became vulnerable and really opened up to others and let myself go. Know it is 1:20 a.m. on wednsday septemper 19 and i am leaving in 3 hours for the airport. Ok so back to camp life i slept on a plywood bed, showered with a water h Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=loving-one-another http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=loving-one-another 11This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 12Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous. 13Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. 14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. 15Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=lost http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=lost I thought I would title this this way because this wat happend to me on tuesday night. I got lost. My friend and went on break from camp toghther and i am in grand forks North Dakota. we went on a bike ride on tuesday night and on the way back he decided to have me lead the way. He didn't tell me if i was right or wrong he just let me go. I kind of got lost. I start to think about this and our realtionship with christ and how sometimes he is there with us allowing us to make the decisions and le Thu, 5 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=stretched http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=stretched This last week of camp was very trying times for me. i was stretched to by breaking point. i loved the kids i worked with but i  had some tough obstacles in my way. many kids came to know christ and many wanted to serve him better. it was awesome to love on these kids. I had a 10 year old boy who i just adore he always wanted to hang on me and i was a little bit irrated at first but begin to love it. I got my personal space stretched. I also had to become a parent chasing bibles around, Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=camp-update-prayer-requests http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=camp-update-prayer-requests well 16-18 year old camp started sunday and it is going great. I started out got of with a negative outlook at first but I changed it by monday morning. On sunday I got a kid in my camp who has never been to camp before in his life let alone a bible camp. scary huh? Well he has been doing ok. I also noticed he does not even now how to read the bible. We have to do memory verses and i think he is struggling. so please pray for him. There also some campers who have had a rough home life and it sho Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=summer-fun http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=summer-fun Camp is fun!! it is are offical first week of camp and we have 12 to 13 year olds. i have 6 in my cabin I had 7 but one had to go home because of home sickness. Today i learned how to run the archery range. all the campers are alive so i guess i did ok. I am exicted and doing great. if any one wants to send me some mail fahocha bible camp 8799 21st NE Warwick, ND 58381 send any thing. Mon, 4 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=update http://chadheap.myadventures.org/?filename=update God is so good. I called home today and my stepdad answered. Yes he is out of the hospital but he stills needs surgery. They will be doing this as soon as they can. please pray for my mom as she is going through trying to get the settlement money from the accident. she is trying to also get the house wheel chair ready and have a ramp built. Fri, 1 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT